Hacker News: shpx

New comment by shpx in "Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived"

shpx — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:29:49 +0000

I had a similar emotional outburst where after contributing hundreds of hours to Stack Overflow, when I asked a question of my own, instead of answering an objective yes/no question people just argued with me in the comments about why I could possibly want to do whatever prompted me to ask my question. I delete my account and quit ever contributing to that site right then and there. I think I was just looking for an out and it was ultimately a good thing.

No idea if this is the case here, but I hope the author sticks with this decision. Although, looking at https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/graphs/co... , it doesn't look like he started this project, so I'm not sure it's his place to archive it.

New comment by shpx in "Rebasing in Magit"

shpx — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:00:02 +0000

I want to quit Magit because it's unbearably slow. In a repo with 6000 files `git status` takes 100ms but the Magit equivalent takes 2-4 seconds.

New comment by shpx in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

shpx — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:08:46 +0000

You need to account for inflation.

New comment by shpx in "Facebook is cooked"

shpx — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:52:21 +0000

Facebook is running the same kind of engagement-maximization algorithm on Marketplace postings, so half of my suggested postings when I open Marketplace is girls posing in the clothes they're selling.

New comment by shpx in "New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]"

shpx — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:41:36 +0000

Mr. Superintelligence increasing Nick Bostrom's life expectancy to a trillion years but killing everyone else would as well. Why is he showing us the grace of letting us tag along with him into The Singularity in this fantasy just because we happened to be alive at the same time? Is it because he needs someone to do the actual work?

Virology Lectures 2025 [video]

shpx — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:10:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pX0x3mC4Io&list=PLGhmZX2NKiNm2iEUtVslIUHTW9i2zAG72

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700998

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by shpx in "Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight"

shpx — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:52:35 +0000

In my experience from the couple of times I clicked an IPFS link years ago, it loaded for a long time and never actually loaded anything, failing the first "I wish we could serve static content" part.

If you make it possible for people to donate bandwidth you might just discover no one wants to.

New comment by shpx in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

shpx — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:56:33 +0000

On this graph, the most expensive RAM is $12.5 / GB ($400 for DDR5-6000 2x16GB). Apple charges

- $25 / GB ($200 for 8 GB for the M5 MacBook Pro and the M4 MacBook Air)

- $16 / GB ($400 for 24 GB for the cheapest M4 Pro MacBook Pro)

- $12.5 / GB ($200 for 16 GB and then $800 for 64 GB more for the most expensive M4 Pro and M4 Max MacBook Pros)

and Apple's RAM is faster than PC RAM.

New comment by shpx in "Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world"

shpx — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:15:21 +0000

That remaining 1% are then actually the most advanced species, since they can continue their billion year existence through a blip of a couple thousand years when the environment became a bit more radioactive. We're so fragile that we're effectively biologically unstable, they're so advanced that they don't even need to know what happened.

New comment by shpx in "Immutable releases are now generally available on GitHub"

shpx — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:06:07 +0000

Would've made more sense to add a grey "Edited" to edited releases. Releases are not actually immutable, GitHub could change them. I don't know why you need to use sciency words to say "editing disabled".

New comment by shpx in "Starcloud"

shpx — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:49:41 +0000

Everyone who puts up a persistent bright dot in the night sky should compensate everyone who has to see it with 1 cent for the sensory pollution.

New comment by shpx in "Addictive-like behavioural traits in pet dogs with extreme motivation for toys"

shpx — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:05:07 +0000

Dog breeds are not real animals, they're some sort of half-artificial thing created by imperfectly writing some people's desire into another species's genetic code.

If you make an artificial thing that really wants to do some specific thing, like a computer endlessly printing "hello world" millions of times a second, it's not surprising to see it do the thing it was created to do. I wouldn't say the computer "wants" to print hello world, so I don't see the dog as doing what it truly wants to do if it's a genetic predisposition human breeders forced into it. I see the expression of a society of dog breeders and people's idea of a game called "fetch" which was relatively easy to transition a species towards step-by-step using artificial selection.

New comment by shpx in "The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says"

shpx — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Like 10% of the entire human race is using their product.

New comment by shpx in "Use the Accept Header to Serve Markdown Instead of HTML to LLMs"

shpx — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:25:17 +0000

You get to live in a world where other people are slightly more productive.

New comment by shpx in "Top Programming Languages 2025"

shpx — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 05:51:05 +0000

I wish there were less programming languages because every library needs to be rewritten as many times as there are languages, a combinatorial waste of time.

Now that CoffeeScript is gone I would like to see all Ruby become Python.

New comment by shpx in "Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool"

shpx — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:35:45 +0000

https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair

New comment by shpx in "Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool"

shpx — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 22:05:35 +0000

You usually just need to replace the front or back glass, which is $30 with Apple Care or $60 for both, not the entire iPhone. I crack mine about once a year.

New comment by shpx in "This map is not upside down"

shpx — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:49:02 +0000

I don't think "natural" is used metaphorically. If you had an accurate simulation of the human hand you could show that one of the directions minimizes energy usage and damage to your hand, and I think it's the one we use. Starting high means gravity is helping you move down the page, and it's also easier to move your hand towards you than away from you, and the many small movements (rather than the one big one to the top of the next page) are where more energy is spent because of friction.

Writing is done by people and people are almost always subject to gravity. It's one of the 4 fundamental forces. Energy minimization is not an arbitrary selection criteria, it's central to the fitness/design of all living things.

New comment by shpx in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

shpx — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:41:56 +0000

Historically, yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_witchcraft

New comment by shpx in "Defense.gov Now Redirects to War.gov"

shpx — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:55:46 +0000

Combining a thing with its opposite is a generic algorithm for generating short, profound-sounding sentences in the language game. You can try it with anything

- Ugliness is beautiful.

- Happiest people are the saddest.

- The darkest light is bright.

- Comfort is uncomfortable.

- Impossible is easy.

- The biggest people are the smallest.

- The bravest are the most afraid.

- Obvious things are the most uncertain.

- Peace is war.

You can keep going for all words with an antonym. Any insight or truth in these statements comes from your brain trying to give them meaning because they're grammatically correct and so short they can't be immediately discarded as obviously false.